Machine tor beushing and winduitg cloth



REUBEN G. `VARL, OF WEST SOMERS, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR BRUSHING AND WINDING CLOTH.

Specification of`Letters Patent No. 3,487, dated March 13, 1844.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, REUBEN C. VARNEL,

of West Somers, Westchester county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Brushing and Vinding Cloth; which is described as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal `section of the machine.

The nature of this invention is by the addition of spirally set, revolving co-rn brooms rollers, pulleys and bands and a revolving flat winding board to the ordinary cylinder brushing machine, to render said machine capable of performing the additional operations of finishing or brushing and rolling or winding the cloth, which have heretofore been performed by hand on a horizontal table.

The frame A of this machine is made of a rectangular form, of suitable size,

j chine over which the cloth passes. E is another connecting bar of the frame whose edges are rounded placed over the aforesaid round barat a distance therefrom equal to the thickness of the cloth to be brushed which is made to pass betweenthem `and back between a weighted roller'F and said connecting bar E. The cloth after passing over the roller is extended horizontally under" the cylinder of spirally set corn brooms Gr to an adjustable roller H used for raisingthe cloth to the brooms as they wear. The gudgeons of this roller turn in boxes or apertures inl arms thatslide in grooves in the frame `over the Shanks `of thumb screws used for holding said Varms and roller at any height required.` The cloth is then carried under, between, and over the ordinary cloth covered cylinders I J geared together by cogwheels and-used for drawing the cloth forward. The cloth is then carried to the revolving flat winding j board K upon which it is wound or rolled. This flat winding board has a gudgeon or frame, one of said boxes being so constructed that by means of simply drawing a pin or key it can be easily taken from its box in order to remove the board or Winder with the cloth thereon from the frame and for drawing the winder from the cloth. On one of said gudgeons or axles is placed a pulley L for a band M leading to another pulley N on the axle of the roller I by which it is turned.

The cloth to be brushed by the aforesaid revolving brooms in order to remove the lint and lumps of wool and other impurities therefromhaving been carried over, un-

der and between the rollers aforesaid with end of the cloth is carried over the rollers under the brooms and around and between the drawing rollers and around the flat winding board the face of the cloth being next the brooms the machine being again put in motion all the remaining lint or dirt will be removed therefrom and the cloth will be wound or folded on the winding or folding board. The board is then removed and withdrawn from the 4cloth which is then finished 4and ready for the market. 4

Vhat I claim as my invention and which desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Thecombination of the revolving cylinder of brooms with the weighted roller adjustable roller and revolving winding board as before described for brushing and winding cloth, whetherl combined and arranged in the manner here described, or in any other mannersubstantially the same, by which analagous `results are produced.

REUBEN C. VARNEL.

`axle in each end turning in boxes in the 

